CN102673186A - Printer control method and printer - Google Patents
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Abstract
A method of controlling a printer 1 comprises the step of cutting a recording paper according to a paper cut command after printing print data received from a host computer 80 on the recording paper 10. If the paper cut command is received while performing an automatic clogged nozzle detection process on the inkjet head 17 after printing ends (S1: Yes), the automatic clogged nozzle detection process is interrupted (S2), and the cutting process is performed (S3).
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to possess control method and printer to the printer of the function of cutting with paper that is discharged from.
Background technology
In the ink-jet printer that the record-paper ejection ink droplet that is made up of coil paper is printed, be provided with mechanism's (reference example such as patent documentation 1 or 2) that the coil paper of being discharged is cut.
Patent documentation 1: TOHKEMY 2007-144785 communique
Patent documentation 2: TOHKEMY 2007-268749 communique
In ink-jet printer, there is following situation, that is, the ejection state from the ink of each ink nozzle is checked, based on this result, under the situation of necessity, carry out nozzle cleaning and handle the hole plug of eliminating ink nozzle.When coil paper was cut off in order in the nozzle verification that the ejection state of ink is checked is handled, being breaking at of this coil paper carried out after nozzle is verified the processing end.Therefore, cutting off coil paper from order begins to wait for the several seconds till in fact cut off coil paper.Thus, do not improve disposal ability (throughput), cause operating efficiency to reduce.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to, provide a kind of and can print the efficient that improves work efficiently, and can carry out the control method and the printer of the printer of good printing.
Can solve the control method of the printer that the present invention of above-mentioned problem is correlated with; It is characterized in that; To after having printed the print data that receives from main frame with paper, use paper according to cutting with paper cutting indication, the spray nozzle clogging of after printing end, carrying out the spray nozzle clogging that automatically detects printhead detects when handling automatically; Accepting under the above-mentioned situation of indicating with paper cutting, automatic detection processing of interruption said nozzle obstruction and execution are to above-mentioned cutting process of cutting with paper.
According to this control method; If when the execution spray nozzle clogging detects processing automatically, accept with paper cutting indication; Then interrupt spray nozzle clogging and detect automatically and handle and preferentially carry out cutting process, therefore can be removed to the stand-by period of carrying out till the cutting process substantially, improve disposal ability.
Thus, can print and improve significantly the efficient of work efficiently.In addition, under situation about not accepting, proceed spray nozzle clogging and detect processing automatically, therefore can suppress the unfavorable condition of spray nozzle clogging etc. and print well with paper cutting indication.
In the control method of printer of the present invention, preferred said nozzle stops up to detect automatically and handles, even finish the back and passed through the predetermined print request stand-by period and be performed when also not have reception from the print request of above-mentioned main frame printing.
According to this control method; Even the process print request stand-by period carries out spray nozzle clogging when also accepting print request, under the state of ending printing and do not detect processing automatically, carrying out cutting process even therefore interrupt this spray nozzle clogging to detect processing does not automatically have influence to the disposal ability of print processing yet.Thus, there not being the cutting process through preferentially carrying out being asked under the state of print request, can improve all disposal abilities.
In the control method of printer of the present invention, preferably interrupted said nozzle stop up detect automatically handle after, carry out after the covering (capping) and handle of printhead, carry out above-mentioned cutting process then.
According to this control method, before cutting process, printhead is covered processing and protect printhead, can keep the meniscus (meniscus) of nozzle.
In the control method of printer of the present invention, preferably interrupting the automatic detection processing of said nozzle obstruction and after carrying out above-mentioned cutting process, carrying out said nozzle again and stop up automatic detection processing.
According to this control method, after carrying out cutting process, can carry out spray nozzle clogging again and detect processing automatically and transfer to holding state, can carry out good print processing all the time.
The printer that the present invention is correlated with; It is characterized in that,, use paper according to cutting with paper cutting indication to after having printed the print data that receives from main frame with paper; This printer possesses: nozzle verification portion, and it detects processing automatically in the spray nozzle clogging of printing end back execution printhead; Use the paper cutting part, it is according to cutting the above-mentioned paper of using with paper cutting indication; Cutting operation portion, it is operated through the user and cuts with paper with the indication of paper cutting part above-mentioned; And control part, it detects when handling in the spray nozzle clogging that print to finish to carry out printhead in the back automatically, said nozzle is stopped up detect handling interrupt automatically and carry out above-mentioned cutting process under the above-mentioned situation with paper cutting indication accepting.
According to the printer of this structure,, then interrupt spray nozzle clogging and detect processing automatically and preferentially carry out cutting process if when the execution spray nozzle clogging detects processing automatically, accept with paper cutting indication.Thus, the stand-by period of carrying out till the cutting process can be removed to substantially, disposal ability can be improved.
Thus, can print and improve significantly the efficient of work efficiently.Therefore in addition, under the situation of not operating cutting operation portion, proceed spray nozzle clogging and detect processing automatically, can suppress the unfavorable condition of spray nozzle clogging etc. and print well.
The printer that the present invention is correlated with is characterised in that, even said nozzle verification portion finishes the back and passed through the predetermined print request stand-by period when also not have to receive the print request from above-mentioned main frame printing, carries out said nozzle and stops up and detect processing automatically
According to the printer of this structure,, can improve all disposal abilities through in the cutting process that does not have preferentially to carry out under the state of print request to be asked.
The printer that the present invention is correlated with is characterised in that; This printer also possesses the shielding portion that is covered the nozzle face of above-mentioned printhead by head-shield (head cap); Above-mentioned control part; Make said nozzle verification portion interrupt said nozzle stop up detect automatically handle after, make above-mentioned shielding portion carry out by head-shield cover above-mentioned printhead nozzle face cover processing, make above-mentioned cutting operation portion carry out above-mentioned cutting process then.
Through the printer of this structure, protect printhead through before cutting process, printhead being covered processing, can keep the meniscus of nozzle.
The printer that the present invention is correlated with is characterised in that; Above-mentioned control part; Stop up to detect automatically and handle making said nozzle verification portion interrupt said nozzle, and after making above-mentioned cutting operation portion carry out above-mentioned cutting process, make said nozzle verification portion carry out said nozzle again and stop up to detect automatically and handle.
According to the printer of this structure, after carrying out cutting process, can carry out spray nozzle clogging again and detect processing automatically and transfer to holding state, can carry out good print processing all the time.
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Fig. 1 is the stereoscopic figure of an embodiment of the printer of the expression control method that is suitable for the printer that the present invention is correlated with.
Fig. 2 is the stereoscopic figure that opens the state behind the printer of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is the broad cross-section map of the printer of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is the part stereogram that attraction cylinder and the record-paper in the printer of presentation graphs 1 attracts mechanism.
Fig. 5 is the plane of the attraction cylinder of the state that passes through of the record-paper in the printer of Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 is the stereogram of a cleaning mechanism of the printer of presentation graphs 1.
Fig. 7 is the sectional drawing that the nozzle of a cleaning mechanism of the printer of presentation graphs 1 is verified state.
Fig. 8 is the schematic block diagram of control system of the printer of presentation graphs 1.
Fig. 9 is the sequential chart of the control after the printing under each condition of expression finishes.
Figure 10 is illustrated in to print to finish the flow chart of back execution with the control under the situation of paper cutting indication.
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Below, the control method of the printer of the present invention being correlated with reference to accompanying drawing and the embodiment of printer driver describe.
Like Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 2, the relevant printer 1 of this embodiment is for being the roll paper printer that coil paper 9 prints to record-paper.Printer 1 has: as all being the roughly printer body 2 of rectangular shape; Open-close lid 3 with the front that is installed in this printer body 2.Form the record-paper outlet 4 of preset width in the front of the external shell 2a of printer body 2.Downside row paper guider 5 at record-paper outlet 4 is forwards outstanding, covers opening 6 in the side configuration of this row's paper guider 5.Externally the downside of row's paper guider 5 among the housing 2a and lid opening 6 forms the peristome 2b (with reference to Fig. 2) of the rectangle of coil paper discrepancy usefulness, and this peristome 2b is closed through open-close lid 3.
If lid opening 6 is operated, then removes the locking of open-close lid 3.And, forwards guide if will arrange paper guider 5, then as shown in Figure 2, open-close lid 3 is opened till roughly becoming level with the place ahead as the center with the bottom.If open open-close lid 3, then formed web-taking in device 7 is in open state in the inside of printer body 2.Simultaneously; Attraction cylinder (platen) 8 that print position is stipulated moves with open-close lid 3; Record-paper transport path from web-taking in device 7 to record-paper outlet 4 is in open state, therefore can carry out the exchange work of coil paper 9 from the place ahead of printer body 2.
Possess in the web-taking in device 7: the axle of coil paper 9 is at the 1st sidewall 11 and the 2nd sidewall 12 being taken in and this is taken in towards the quilt traverse state of printer width play about width stipulates.These the 1st sidewalls 11 and the 2nd sidewall 12 are in order to take in different on the printer width, sliding with the coil paper 9 of paper width.Insert locking mechanism and coil paper force application part 13 that the mode that on the printer width, do not move according to the 1st sidewall 11 locks in the 1st sidewall 11, in the upper part of the front side of the 1st sidewall 11, the operation part 14 of locking mechanism is exposed.The leading section of coil paper force application part 13 is outstanding in web-taking in device 7 from the opening on the surperficial 11a of the inboard that is formed at the 1st sidewall 11.Coil paper force application part 13 constitutes according to the mode that between the corresponding to retreating position of surperficial 11a of the front end face of extrusion position as shown in Figure 2 and its leading section and the 1st sidewall 11, moves, with the predetermined elasticity power application of force on extrusion position all the time.
If be pressed into the operation part 14 of locking mechanism through manual operation, then the locking of the 1st sidewall 11 is disengaged, and the 1st sidewall 11 is moved on the printer width, can be to positioning with the paper width from the coil paper 9 taken in here.Afterwards, if being pressed into of the operation part 14 of the mechanism that unlocks then turns back to the mobile lock-out state that is prevented from of the 1st sidewall 11.When taking in width and take in coil paper 9 after adjusting, coil paper force application part 13 is in the state that coil paper 9 is pressed into towards the 2nd sidewall 12 sides, and the coil paper of therefore being taken in 9 can not become flexible (ガ タ pay く).In addition, in Fig. 2, omitted the hamper 3a and the lid opening 6 of open-close lid 3.
As shown in Figure 3, in the inside of printer 1, the middle body of the width in printer body frame 15 forms web-taking in device 7.At the upside of web-taking in device 7, print head assembly frame 16 flatly is installed in the upper end of printer body frame 15.Dispose in the print head assembly frame 16: ink gun 17, be used to detect ink gun 17 the position linear scale 18 and code sensor 19, ink gun 17 and be equipped with the carriage 20 of code sensor 19, to the mobile carriage axis of guide 21 that leads towards the printer width of carriage 20.
Downside at ink gun 17 disposes the attraction cylinder 8 that separates certain interval and on the printer width, flatly extend.Attract cylinder 8 when the record-paper of emitting from coil paper 9 (use paper) 10 passes through print position, the inboard by printing surface of this record-paper 10 is attracted to surperficial 8a.In attracting cylinder 8 and printer body 2, constitute record-paper and attract mechanism.
The rear end that attracts cylinder 8 be equipped with below crooked tensioning guider 24, tensioning guider 24 is through spring force and to the top application of force.Under the state of paying predetermined tension force, drawn through tensioning guider 24 from the record-paper 10 that the coil paper 9 that is accommodated in web-taking in device 7 is drawn along record-paper transport path via print position.
At the rear side that attracts cylinder 8, rear side feed rollers 25 is flatly set up on the printer width.In rear side feed rollers 25, be pressed into the rear side air roll 26 of preset width with predetermined pressing force via record-paper 10.The position of the front in attracting cylinder 8 disposes front side feed rollers 27, in front side feed rollers 27, is pressed into front side air roll 28 via record-paper 10 from upside.Rear side feed rollers 25 and front side feed rollers 27 are driven through the defeated paper motor 29 that is equipped on printer body frame 15.In addition, in record-paper outlet 4, be provided with paper clipper 53, the record-paper of being seen off from record-paper outlet 4 through front side feed rollers 27 and front side air roll 28 10 is by being cut off with paper clipper 53.When open-close lid 3 is opened and closed, attract cylinder 8, tensioning guider 24, rear side feed rollers 25, front side feed rollers 27 to move with open-close lid 3.
Like Fig. 4 and shown in Figure 5, attract cylinder 8 to be flat rectangular shape long on the printer width.The ink mist recoverer 31 that the ink mist that produces owing to the ink droplet from ink gun 17 ejections is reclaimed is integrally formed in the side that attracts cylinder 8 with this attraction cylinder 8.The surperficial 8a of attraction cylinder 8 is split into a plurality of divisions chamber 33 of ditch shape through a plurality of vertical rib shape members 32.Attract mechanism by constitute record-paper with the lower part: above-mentioned a plurality of divisions chamber 33; In formed attraction hole, each bottom surface of a plurality of divisions chamber 33 34; Be installed on the attraction fan 35 on the backplate of printer body frame 15; Via each attract hole 34 and divide with each that chamber 33 is communicated with and via attraction fan 35 with the air flue 37 that is communicated with at the formed exhaust outlet 36 of the rear side of printer body 2.
In addition, attracting the width of cylinder 8 is the printer width, and each divides the top opening of chamber 33 for attracting the attraction zone 8b of cylinder 8.The width A of attraction zone 8b on the so-called width that attracts cylinder 8, as shown in Figure 5, be the left end of opening above the division chamber 33 (a) of the left end that attracts cylinder 8 width till the right of opening above the division chamber 33 (b) of right-hand member.The use paper width B of so-called record-paper 10 is the width of the record-paper 10 on the width that attracts cylinder 8.
When printing, printer 1 makes and attracts fan 35 runnings, will be attracted to the attraction zone 8b that attracts cylinder 8 from the record-paper 10 that coil paper 9 is emitted.In addition, printer 1 carries out following action repeatedly: make ink gun 17 move on the width of cylinder 8 and print attracting through carriage 20 is moved along the carriage axis of guide 21; With through 27 rotations of rear side feed rollers 25 and front side feed rollers are driven with the width that attracts cylinder 8 mutually on the direction of quadrature with preset space length feeding recordable paper 10.
When printing employed record-paper 10 with the paper width B than under the narrow situation of the width A of the regional 8b of the attraction that attracts cylinder 8; As shown in Figure 5, attract the part of regional 8b on the outside with the 1st and the 2nd paper end 10a on the paper width B direction, 10b of record-paper 10, to expose.Thus, because near the attraction of the air of this exposed portions serve and the 1st and the 2nd paper end 10a, 10b, produce air-flow.This air-flow disperses paper powder or dust etc. above the 1st and the 2nd paper end 10a, 10b.Because the end of record-paper 10 is the section of the fiber of paper, therefore be easy to generate the paper powder.In addition; In this example; Possess from sandwich and put into the coil paper 9 the web-taking in device 7 and the 1st and the 2nd sidewall 11,12 that prevents to become flexible, therefore the two sides and 11,12 frictions of the 1st and the 2nd sidewall and generation paper powder of coil paper 9 when each feeding recordable paper 10.This paper powder is sometimes till record-paper 10 is transported to attraction cylinder 8 from web-taking in device 7.
Therefore; Under the narrow situation of the width A of the attraction zone 8b that attracts cylinder 8 in comparing of record-paper 10 with the paper width B; When the nozzle face 17a of ink gun 17 is positioned at the position of the distance of being scheduled to from the 1st and the 2nd paper end 10a, 10b, the mode drive controlling printer 1 that carries out the conveying of record-paper 10.Thus, being transported to paper powder till the print position etc. from web-taking in device 7 disperses and can not be attached on the nozzle face 17a.
As shown in Figure 6, printer 1 possesses a cleaning mechanism 40, and this cleaning mechanism 40 is configured in the below of the position of readiness of ink gun 17.This cleaning mechanism 40 possesses: the head-shield 41 that is used for the nozzle face 17a of jet of sealed head 17; Be used to clean the wiper 42 of the ink that is attached to nozzle face 17a or foreign matter etc.; Be used to attract in the nozzle of ink gun 17 residual or carry out the ink attraction portion 43 of the ink of hole plug etc.Head-shield 41, wiper 42 and ink attraction portion 43 are installed in the frame 44 of a cleaning mechanism 40.Frame 44 is fixed on the printer body frame 15 of the Support bracket axis of guide 21 or attraction cylinder 8 etc.
Head-shield 41 possess the nozzle face 17a that is configured in position of readiness under, and with nozzle face 17a over against the sealing surface 41a that makes progress.Head-shield 41 constitutes, through making the running of not shown driving mechanism in the direction that nozzle face 17a is vertical relatively, promptly can slide up and down on the direction of quadrature mutually with the carriage axis of guide 21.Thus, head-shield 41 on the sealing surface 41a relative to nozzle face 17a near direction or away from direction on move.
Box shape as shown in Figure 7, that head-shield 41 comes for the edge part 41b of sealing surface 41a vertically holds up is formed by the material with elastic force property of rubber etc.Head-shield 41 forms part and can make head-shield 41 be close to size and the shape of nozzle face 17a for the nozzle according to the mode covering nozzles face 17a that is surrounded by edge part 41b.In the recess 41c that is surrounded by sealing surface 41a and edge part 41b, pipeline is used in the attraction that the never illustrated pump motor that connection ink attraction portion 43 is possessed extends.If make edge part 41b be close to pump motor running under the state of nozzle face 17a; The seal cavity that is then surrounded by recess 41c and nozzle face 17a through the attraction of pump motor is depressurized, and the ink that residues in each nozzle of ink gun 17 is attracted and is ejected in the recess 41c.
Finish and make ink gun 17 under the situation of standby on the position of readiness in print job, head-shield 41 moves till the position of being close on every side of edge part 41b and nozzle face 17a and comes valve nozzles.Thus, the ink in the nozzle in the time of can being difficult to make standby increases viscosity and is difficult to produce hole plug etc.In addition, synchronously rise, can handle by the wiping that wiper 42 carries out nozzle face 17a is cleaned through making wiper 42 and the timing that makes ink gun 17 move to position of readiness side or print position side.
Needing under the situation of head cleaning owing to the hole plug of nozzle etc.; Can carry out ink attracts to handle; Promptly; Head-shield 41 is moved under the state of the position that nozzle is sealed, making the pump motor running and, make ink from each ink nozzle ejection to attracting in the seal cavity that is surrounded by recess 41c and nozzle face 17a.
In addition; In order suitably to keep the state of the ink droplet in the ink nozzle; Making under ink gun 17 and the head-shield 41 opposed states, irrespectively regularly wash processing with print job, promptly, the ink that makes scheduled volume sprays in the recess 41c of head-shield 41 from all ink nozzles of ink gun 17.In addition, will concentrate and the flushing of ejection is handled than the ink droplet that the ink droplet of ejection in this periodic flushing is handled Duo, and also can carry out head thus and clean the hole plug that recovers nozzle etc. in execution under the timing of expectation.As clean, can carry out in above-mentioned wiping processing, ink attraction processing, the flushing processing, perhaps can these be handled suitably to make up and carry out.
Before in fact carrying out above-mentioned clean etc., carry out the nozzle of checking from the ejection state of the ink of ink nozzle verified and handle (spray nozzle clogging detects processing automatically).And, verify the result based on nozzle and judge whether to carry out nozzle cleaning, under the situation of necessity, carry out nozzle cleaning and handle.
Verify processing in order to carry out this nozzle, a cleaning mechanism 40 possesses the nozzle verification mechanism that is used to detect bad nozzle.That is, in recess 41c, configuration is used to absorb the absorbing material 41d of the useless ink that is sprayed, and according to the mode that conducts with absorbing material 41d conductive material 41e is installed.The signal of telecommunication that flows through conductive material 41e is removed through distribution etc.Through this structure, the charged ink droplet of each nozzle ejection from ink gun 17 can take out the signal of the electric current variation that when charged ink droplet drops is in absorbing material 41d, is produced.No matter whether sprayed ink droplet, under the situation below the predetermined threshold value, the ejection that can be judged as nozzle is bad at this signal.In addition, as the detection method of bad nozzle, adopt the means of optics such as laser to detect the method for the ink droplet that is sprayed in addition.
Nozzle verify to be handled, and particularly, from the charged ink droplet of nozzle ejection of ink gun 17, the signal that the electric current based among the absorbing material 41d of this ink droplet drops in recess 41c the time changes is checked the ejection state from the ink droplet of nozzle.When nozzle is verified processing; The mode that becomes preliminary dimension according to the gap L 2 between the surface of the gap L 1 between the upper end of the edge part 41b in nozzle face 17a and the head-shield 41 and nozzle face 17a and absorbing material 41d positions head-shield 41; Under this state; In order to make ink gun 17 and head-shield 41 be in predetermined potential difference,, apply voltage and be in predetermined electric field status in head-shield 41 sides with ink gun 17 side joint ground.The electric charge that till dripping, all has scheduled volume from the ink droplet of ink gun 17 ejections through this electric field.If ink droplet drops, then charged electric charge flows among the conductive material 41e.Thus, can check the ejection state of ink droplet accurately.
As shown in Figure 8, the control system of printer 1 constitutes, and is the center with the control part 50 that possesses CPU, ROM, RAM.In control part 50, from the print data of main frame 80 via communication interface 51 and communication buffer device 52 and be transfused to.In addition, the nonvolatile memory 54 of flash ROM etc. is connected with control part 50, and this nonvolatile memory 54 is stored expanding data that keep to print usefulness or various setting values etc. as buffer.
At the outlet side of control part 50, ink gun 17, tray motor 22, defeated paper motor 29, attract fan 35 and with paper clipper 53 respectively via driver 55～59 connections.Control part 50 have printing portion 60, nozzle verification portion 62, nozzle recover handling part 66, with paper cutting part 67, with paper attraction portion 68 and shielding portion 69.
60 pairs of tray motors 22 of printing portion, defeated paper motor 29 carry out drive controlling and based on print data record-paper 10 are printed.The signal that the electric current that nozzle verification portion 62 takes out based on the conductive material 41e from formation nozzle verification mechanism changes carries out whether normally from each ink nozzle, spraying the nozzle verification processing of ink droplet.
Nozzle recovers handling part 66 normally from each ink nozzle under the situation of ejection ink droplet, is used for the ejection recovering state of the ink droplet of each ink nozzle nozzle to normal state is recovered to handle.That is, carry out that correct cleaning mechanism 40 carries out drive controlling and attract the work of ink from each ink nozzle.In addition, tray motor 22 and a cleaning mechanism 40 are carried out drive controlling and clean by the nozzle face 17a of 42 pairs of ink guns 17 of wiper.
With paper cutting part 67 drive be arranged at record-paper outlet 4 with paper clipper 53, cut off record-paper 10 from the printing end of record-paper outlet 4 discharges etc.From attracting hole 34 to suck air, make the record-paper of being carried 10 be attracted to the surperficial 8a that attracts cylinder 8 through making record-paper attract attraction fan 35 runnings of mechanism with paper attraction portion 68.
The upper equipment of main frame 80 for being connected with printer 1, this control part (printer driver) 81 is made up of CPU, ROM, RAM etc.Send print data via order generation portion 82 and communication interface 83 to printer 1 from this main frame 80.
In above-mentioned printer 1; During from main frame 80 receiving printing orders and print data; Thereby through attract attraction fan 35 runnings of mechanism with paper attraction portion 68 record-papers, suck air, the record-paper of being carried 10 is attracted to the surperficial 8a that attracts cylinder 8 from attracting hole 34.And, as above such to being adsorbed in the record-paper 10 that attracts cylinder 8, from the ink nozzle of ink gun 17, spray ink droplet through printing portion 60, thereby print.Be discharged from from record-paper outlet 4 by the record-paper 10 printed, through with paper cutting part 67 by with 53 cut-outs of paper clipper.
In addition, control part 50 is connected with the cutting operation portion 70 that is made up of press button that is arranged at printer body 2 etc.Control part 50 is pressed the user under the situation of cutting operation portion 70, to sending with paper cutting indication with paper cutting part 67, handles through the cut-out of carrying out record-paper 10 with paper clipper 53.This cutting operation portion 70 at random cuts off the user under the situation of record-paper 10 and is pressed.
Shown in Fig. 9 (a), printer 1 prints instruction and waits for after printing end.This print command is waited for to whether print data is sent the print request stand-by period of carrying out standby, is carried out scheduled time standby.If received print data at this print command waiting time, then printer 1 is carried out print processing based on this print data that receives.
Under the situation that does not receive print data; After the process print command stand-by period; During about 5 seconds, carry out nozzle through nozzle verification portion 62 and verify processing; During about 1 second, carry out the nozzle face 17a of the ink gun that moves to position of readiness 17 is covered by what head-shield 41 covered afterwards, thereby be in holding state through shielding portion 69.In addition, under the situation of suspending mode, printing stops to attract fan 35 after finishing.In addition, the print command stand-by period is not for producing 3 seconds times to 15 seconds degree by the degree of the dry caused unfavorable condition of the ink nozzle of ink gun 17.
And; Printer 1 to being in the standby sends print datas and instruction when printing from main frame 80; At first attract fan 35, began the printing to record-paper 10 of printing portion 60 in about 2 seconds to attracting cylinder 8 to adsorb record-paper 10 backs reliably through this attraction fan 35 through turning round with paper attraction portion 68.
Next, to the situation of pressing cutting operation portion 70 through the user printer of printing after finishing 1 is described.
Shown in Fig. 9 (b), to printing the printer 1 after finishing, press through the user under the situation of cutting operation portion 70, in the print command stand-by period, thereby use 53 runnings of paper clipper through pressing of cutting operation portion 70 with paper cutting part 67.Thus, after pressing cutting operation portion 70, cut off record-paper 10 at once.
Carry out nozzle in the end of print command stand-by period and verify when handling, control part 50 is controlled along flow chart shown in Figure 10.
At first, control part 50 judges whether cutting operation portions (cutting button) 70 are pressed (step S1), be judged to be under the situation that cutting operation portion 70 is pressed (step S1: be), interrupts nozzle and verifies and handle, and abolishes this nozzle and verifies process result (step S2).
Next, (step S3) handled in the cut-out of carrying out the record-paper 10 that is carried out with paper cutting part 67.Particularly, after nozzle is verified handling interrupt, carry out covering the covering of nozzle face 17a of ink guns 17 through shielding portion 69 by head-shield 41.Afterwards, attract fan 35 runnings, through this attraction fan 35 record-paper 10 is adsorbed in reliably and attracts cylinder 8 and record-paper 10 is remained stable attitude, use 53 runnings of paper clipper and cut off record-paper 10 through making with paper attraction portion 68.In addition, after cutting off record-paper 10, wash processing at once as work afterwards.
Afterwards; Judge in the cut-out of the record-paper 10 that is carried out with paper clipper 53 and whether produce mistake (step S4); Do not have mistake then to be judged to be and cut off record-paper 10 (step S4: not), begin nozzle once more through nozzle verification portion 62 and verify processing, verify (step S5) successively from initial nozzle; Afterwards, be in the covering of nozzle face 17a of carrying out covering ink guns 17 and be in holding state (step S6) by head-shield 41 through shielding portion 69.In addition, the judgement of step S4 can be adopted and detect paper detector that the record-paper 10 that the record-paper outlet 4 of having no way of sees off is arranged etc.
If judge in the cut-out of record-paper 10, to produce wrong (step S4: be), then carry out covering the covering of nozzle face 17a (step S7) of ink guns 17 by head-shield 41 through shielding portion 69, make and cut off in the wrong display that is shown in main frame 80 (step S8).
Even do not interrupt nozzle yet and verify the control of handling (reference example) and describe in nozzle verify to be handled, pressing cutting operation portion 70.
Shown in Fig. 9 (c), even in nozzle verify to be handled, press cutting operation portion 70, also continue to carry out nozzle and verify and handle, verify after processing finishes at this nozzle, through shielding portion 69 carry out by head-shield 41 cover ink guns 17 nozzle face 17a cover processing.Afterwards, attract fan 35 through turning round,, then use 53 runnings of paper clippers, cut off record-paper 10 with paper cutting part 67 if record-paper 10 is adsorbed onto attraction cylinder 8 reliably through this attraction fan 35 with paper attraction portion 68.
Thus; In the control of the reference example that does not interrupt nozzle verification processing; Even in through the verification of the nozzle after print command stand-by period processing, press cutting operation portion 70; The most about 5 seconds of carrying out that nozzle verify to handle, till cover about 1 second through and after the about 2 seconds processing time (maximum total 8 seconds) that record-paper 10 is adsorbed in attract till the cylinder 8, the also cut-out of executive logging paper 10.That is, the user must wait for the most about 8 seconds after pressing cutting operation portion 70.
Relative therewith; In the control that the present invention shown in Fig. 9 (b) is correlated with; Even in through the verification of the nozzle after print command stand-by period processing, press cutting operation portion 70; Nozzle after omitting is verified the most about 5 seconds time T of handling required usefulness, has passed through to till covering about 1 second and after the about 2 seconds processing time (amounting to 3 seconds) that makes till record-paper 10 is adsorbed in attraction cylinder 8 the also cut-out of executive logging paper 10 at once.That is, the user waits for about about 2 seconds and gets final product after pressing cutting operation portion 70.
Thus, the control of the embodiment of being correlated with according to the present invention is verified when handling carrying out nozzle, if accept with paper cutting indication, then interrupts nozzle and verifies and handle and carry out cutting process, therefore can omit the stand-by period of carrying out till the cutting process substantially.
Carry out nozzle even promptly after print finishing, do not accept print request and verify and handle, also make this nozzle verify handling interrupt, can preferentially carry out the cutting process of being asked and improve disposal ability.Thus, can print and improve significantly the efficient of work efficiently.But, if in nozzle verify to be handled, do not accept, then carry out nozzle and verify and handle with paper cutting indication, therefore carry out clean as required according to this result, can eliminate the unfavorable condition of spray nozzle clogging etc.And, can carry out good print processing.
In addition; Even handle owing to when also not accepting print command, under the suspended state of printing, carry out the nozzle verification through the print command stand-by period; Carry out cutting process even therefore interrupt this nozzle verification processing, also do not hinder the execution of print processing.Through in the cutting process that does not have preferentially to carry out under the state of print request to be asked, can improve the whole disposal ability of processing of printer 1.
In addition, before cutting process, ink gun 17 is covered processing and protect ink gun 17, can keep the meniscus of nozzle.
But, after carrying out cutting process, can carry out nozzle once more and verify processing and transfer to holding state, carry out good print processing all the time.
In addition; The above-mentioned control that is controlled to be under printer 1 is in suspending mode through printer configuration part 87 the situation; But be in through printer configuration part 87 at printer 1 under the situation of suspending mode not; After printing end, also remain in operation and attract fan 35, keep the state after record-paper 10 is adsorbed in attraction cylinder 8.
Therefore; At this not in the suspending mode; Shown in Fig. 9 (d); Interrupt through pressing cutting operation portion 70 after the print command stand-by period nozzle verify handle after, through shielding portion 69 carry out by head-shield 41 cover ink guns 17 nozzle face 17a cover processing, use 53 runnings of paper clipper to cut off record-paper 10.
Thus; When in verification is handled through the nozzle after the print command stand-by period, pressing cutting operation portion 70; The cut-out of executive logging paper 10 at once after about 1 second processing time of passing through to till covering; Also can save and follow the stand-by period of resetting that attracts fan 35, can realize further quickening to cut off record-paper 10.
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1. the control method of a printer is characterized in that, to after having printed the print data that receives from main frame with paper, uses paper according to cutting with paper cutting indication,
The spray nozzle clogging of after printing end, carrying out the spray nozzle clogging that automatically detects printhead detects when handling automatically, accepting under the above-mentioned situation of indicating with the paper cutting,
Interrupting automatic detection of said nozzle obstruction handles and carries out above-mentioned cutting process of cutting with paper.
2. the control method of printer according to claim 1 is characterized in that,
Said nozzle stops up to detect automatically and handles, even finish the back and passed through the predetermined print request stand-by period and be performed when also not have reception from the print request of above-mentioned main frame printing.
3. the control method of printer according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that,
After having interrupted the automatic detection processing of said nozzle obstruction, carry out the processing of covering to printhead, carry out above-mentioned cutting process then.
4. according to the control method of each described printer in the claim 1～3, it is characterized in that,
Interrupting the automatic detection processing of said nozzle obstruction and after carrying out above-mentioned cutting process, carrying out said nozzle again and stop up automatic detection processing.
5. a printer is characterized in that, to after having printed the print data that receives from main frame with paper, uses paper according to cutting with paper cutting indication, and this printer possesses:
Nozzle verification portion, it detects processing automatically in the spray nozzle clogging of printing end back execution printhead;
Use the paper cutting part, it is according to cutting the above-mentioned paper of using with paper cutting indication;
Cutting operation portion, it is operated through the user and cuts with paper with the indication of paper cutting part above-mentioned; With
Control part, it detects when handling in the spray nozzle clogging that print to finish to carry out printhead in the back automatically, said nozzle is stopped up detect handling interrupt automatically and carry out above-mentioned cutting process under the above-mentioned situation with paper cutting indication accepting.
6. printer according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
Even the predetermined print request stand-by period has been passed through when also not have to receive the print request from above-mentioned main frame print finishing the back by said nozzle verification portion, carry out said nozzle and stop up and detect processing automatically.
7. printer according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
This printer also possesses the shielding portion that is covered the nozzle face of above-mentioned printhead by head-shield,
Above-mentioned control part, make said nozzle verification portion interrupt said nozzle stop up detect automatically handle after, make above-mentioned shielding portion carry out by head-shield cover above-mentioned printhead nozzle face cover processing, make above-mentioned cutting operation portion carry out above-mentioned cutting process then.
8. printer according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
Above-mentioned control part stops up to detect automatically and handles making said nozzle verification portion interrupt said nozzle, and after making above-mentioned cutting operation portion carry out above-mentioned cutting process, makes said nozzle verification portion carry out said nozzle again and stops up to detect automatically and handle.
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